2016 NFL Draft: Updated Prospect Radar Post-Week 9

November 9, 2015   ·   Justis Mosqueda   ·   Jump to comments

If you ever try to pin down who you think will win on a given NFL Sunday, you'll realize how close every one of the 32 franchises are across the board. Right when you think you have the league figured out, Blaine Gabbert's San Francisco 49ers, who won only one of their last seven games heading into the match, beat the Atlanta Falcons, who started the year with five straight wins.
At the end of the day, what makes the biggest difference is young players on rookie contracts. For that reason, the NFL draft has such a strong pull on the outcome of the league, and is much more important than the NBA or MLB drafts, leagues where the majority of stars hit free agency. In the NFL, hitting free agency is almost a negative, as every team has a fixed hard cap to use on players. If a franchise, which has just as much financial resources as any, lets you go, what's that say about you?
Rookie contract players swing the league. If you don't believe me, look at the Seattle Seahawks before an...

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